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Alright the first paragraph: > A teen traveling solo for the first time from Gainesville, Florida to Charlotte was taken to a security room by American Airline
by sonicshadow 3y ago
Alright the first paragraph:
> A teen traveling solo for the first time from Gainesville, Florida to Charlotte was taken to a security room by American Airlines. There he was interrogated – and forced to buy a new ticket – according to the boy’s father.
What is your definition of "detained"?
- awb 3y agoPrivate companies have no legal right to detain anyone. They probably intimidated him into coming with them and he agreed / complied.
- LeafItAlone 3y agodetained: to hold or keep in or as if in custody > according to the boy’s father Who wasn’t present. The airline may have asked nicely and the son complied and never tried or asked to leave. That’s not being detained. We will probably only know the details if this goes to court and it comes out or if video of the interaction is released.
- sonicshadow 3y agoI guess the burden of proof lies with the person writing the story, so if you want to believe it's all wrong then go ahead.
- LeafItAlone 3y agoThis entire article is based off the word of the father who has supposedly been flying with Skiplagged for over five years and somehow didn’t know that the airlines didn’t look favorably on it. That makes me just a little suspicious, since the time I heard of it my first question was “is this allowed”.
- dylan604 3y agoIf the boy is an underage teen, then it would also be illegal to interrogate him without the presence of a guardian. If I am going about my business, but you request that I stop what I'm doing to follow you to have a chat, you are detaining me. period. you pussyfooting around this like it's not is just disingenuous at best
- LeafItAlone 3y ago> If the boy is an underage teen, then it would also be illegal to interrogate him without the presence of a guardian. Was this the government police doing this? Or a private company? > If I am going about my business, but you request that I stop what I'm doing to follow you to have a chat, you are detaining me. period. you pussyfooting around this like it's not is just disingenuous at best So all of those “on-the-street” YouTubers asking questions are detaining people? Even if those people don’t stop?
- dylan604 3y agoYes, on-the-street people are detaining people from doing what they are intending to do. Some people might not mind, but if you are interfering with someone it's detaining them. There are multiple definitions, and you seem to be stuck on the one. maybe you'd prefer the word accosted?
- LeafItAlone 3y agoHere you go: www.law.cornell.edu/wex/detain
- dylan604 3y agoLook, it’s quite obvious you’re wanting to win the most pedantic user on the internet. If you are a private citizen, a local cop, or a federal agent, if you prevent me from going about my day to have a conversation that I don’t want to have under threat of not being allowed to do what I’m trying to do, you’ve detained me. Why you are hung up on this I have no idea. Personal pet peeve maybe, but having a conversation in the spirit of rather than the pedantry of will be much more productive.
- Supermancho 3y agoI see nothing in that definition that contradicts the stated facts. > In criminal law, to detain an individual is to hold them in custody > Custody is the state of physically holding or controlling a person If a person positions to block my way (especially in an official capacity), this is detainment, brief as it may be and as hard as it may be to prove in a trial.
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